Horn: “What was Cuban doing? He was kind of out there stirring the pot. You don’t want to get Kobe stirred up or riled up any time because he’s a competitor. Maybe mark missed the headlines for today. I don’t miss him when he’s off making money and doing other things. I think the team functions better that way.”

Sherrington: “The players can’t like this. The guy is hard enough to play as it is. He’s already gassed up. He’s already playing great. He sees LeBron (James) getting all this attention for how great he’s playing. The Lakers are foundering. They’re right there on the edge, and he said we’re going to get to the playoffs. In other words, I’m going to put them on my back, and we’re going to go. You’re seeing know why I think the guy has been the greatest player in the NBA the last 10 years or 15 years because it’s things like yesterday. That was a phenomenal performance. The last thing you need is the owner stepping up and getting in the way of all of this. He needs to back up.”

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